Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34699 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3101
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a crucial period for career building. This makes it essential to understand its impact on women's subsequent earnings trajectories. We find that the wage return to part-time experience is low negligible in lower skill occupations. Even more important channels contributing to the pay disadvantage of women working part-time are job changing, particularly when this involves occupational downgrading. Downgrading can lead to a permanent pay disadvantage for women following a spell in part-time work.
Subjects: 
Female employment
part-time work
occupation
earnings trajectories
life-cycle
downgrade
over-qualification
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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